[ Academia ] [ Litigation ] [ Regulatory & Policy ] [ Transactional ] as a Relevant Course outside SLS for those interested in Media/ Entertainment/ Sports : Courses from the Communications Department focus on some of the services the media industries provide: information, news and entertainment. Students interested in the publishing or new media industries should consider taking 1 or more courses on journalism, broadcasting or other forms of expression that may require striking a balance between privacy and property rights, on the one hand, and the public interest, on the other. This course reviews the emergence of objectivity in commonly accepted standards of responsible journalism.

General course
Description:

(Graduate students register for COMM 231.) The development of professionalism among American journalists, emphasizing the emergence of objectivity as a professional and the epistemological norm. An applied ethics course where questions of power, freedom, and truth autonomy are treated normatively so as to foster critical thinking about the origins and implications of commonly accepted standards of responsible journalism.

Course Style: A Substantive course teaches the law, theory, and policy in a particular area of law